#screenshot included with permission! :) thought it would be a fun little addition. thank you to lux-vega for also answering!

[episodes-without-incident]

6/13/2023:

4 episodes since Drawfee last referenced Cats (2019)

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Shootweek is happening again this year from May 25 - May 31 thanks to the efforts of @ariyah-v! Get ready for a week of all things Root and Shaw.

Aren’t sure what shootweek is? Click here to see the official shootweek18 event post. It’s got theme days, prompts, and more.

Want to participate but aren’t sure how? Check below the Read More line for some ideas and how-to’s to get you started.

1) Meta/Headcanon posts - Have a scene/theme/character you have a lot of thoughts about? Have a fun or unusual headcanon you want the world to hear? Have strong opinions on whether or not Root can cook? Write that stuff down in a text post!

(***Please keep headcanon posts civil. We all have different headcanons and that’s okay! Thank you in advance***).

2) Favorites lists - Possibly related to your meta posts, make a list of your top favorite episodes/moments/shots/quotes and write a little about why each of them made it on your favorites list.

3) Add images to your text post - Add screenshots from episodes to fill out your meta/headcanon/favorites post. Stuff with images gets more notes generally because we all have a half a second attention span here on tumblr dot what and we all like pretty pictures. Find high-quality images on screencapped.net. Frame capture from VLC. Screenshot netflix. Or get permission from someone who posts stills here to use one of their images (please please please always source where your image is from).

4) Incorrect Quotes/Funny Captions - Have a funny quote from brooklyn 99 or parks and rec that you think would be great for person of interest characters to have said? Thought of funny alternative dialogue to a scene? Grab some poi screenshots and slap the text on them. Just add the text in ms paint if that’s all you’ve got.

5) Text Crack posts - We all enjoy those posts where people put popular tumblr text posts over stills from a show for great comedic results. Good news is they’re really easy to throw together. Stick a screenshot of your text post onto a poi still using any image editing program. Sure you can definitely make them look really nice in photoshop, but you can also make them in good old ms paint.

6) Edits - Stills - Make image posts with still frames from the show. There’s a ton of different things you can do with this. Maybe do a series of images from one episode or of one character. Really cool shots you liked. Color themes. It can even be one single image of a shot you thought was really cool or shows off Shaw’s fabulous arm muscles especially well. If you’ve got image editing software (like photoshop or gimp) you can get fancier. Brighten up the image. Tweak the coloring. Draw a mustache on Reese.

Also, here is a useful post on dashboard image sizes for edits.

6a) Avatars - Make some avatars for people’s blogs. People love free stuff! Enjoy the warm contentment of seeing edits you made show up in your activity feed as avatars of people who actually liked/reblogged/gave credit for your work! *finger guns*

7) Edits - Gifs - Making gifs usually requires a bit more to start with. At the very least you need video files from which to make the gifs. You can find all the Shoot scenes on youtube in HD here if you don’t have the video files. If you’ve got that then there are a couple routes to go. There are websites you can use to make gifs which have some basic settings to play with and the ability to add captions.

Want to get fancier? Here’s a tutorial on making gifs in photoshop I dug up from forever ago. It’s a bit old, but the basic stuff hasn’t changed. I would recommend figuring out what lighting/coloring works for your gifs rather than following any tutorial blindly. (I cannot personally attest to the download links for software in that tutorial).

Also, if you can’t use photoshop, you can use Gimp, a free cross-platform image editor. Creating a very simple gif in gimp isn’t that difficult, but it’s not very friendly for editing multiple layers (frames) at once and not nearly as versatile as photoshop. You can definitely make it work, but it might require a little more effort.

8) Art - I am very much not an artist so I don’t have any tips or hints here. But don’t feel shy about posting your art. We want to see it! And a fandom event is a great way to have your work noticed and reblogged. Can’t think of what to draw? Try drawing something from the prompt list, or from a fic you like.

9) Fics - Fics are easy because you don’t need any additional software to write them. Fics are hard because...writing. Grab a prompt from this list, ask your followers for prompts, or just do your own thing. I could make a much longer post about tips for new writers, but a few that come to mind...

Don’t force yourself to hit a certain word count. If it needs to be longer or shorter then just let it.

Don’t add stuff because you feel like you have to. You’re not required to write action/dialogue/smut/fluff/whatever. Write what you want or you’ll make yourself miserable.

Stuck on a word or sentence? Put in a placeholder and come back to it later. I 100% cannot do this, but it works great for some writers.

Sometimes the style of fics you like reading aren't the style of fics you enjoy writing.

If you’re nervous about posting something, get a friend to read it first. They don���t even have to beta it in any formal way. Sometimes you just need someone to tell you it doesn’t suck to get you to the point where you can hit that post button.

LibreOffice Writer is a good, free word processor that works on most operating systems. Google docs/drive lets you edit your fics anywhere, including on your phone.

10) Videos - I haven’t opened a video editing program in years and can’t offer much advice, but the programs that I know of people using for fanvids are Adobe Premiere, Adobe After Effects, and Vegas Pro. Also here’s some free video editing programs to consider. Here’s a getting started guide that looks informative.

11) Playlists - I know...even less about this than videos. I think spotify is the platform of choice? Or maybe 8tracks? There is a good chance that you, the reader, know more about this than I do so please go forth and make Shoot-themed playlists for us all.

Make sure you use the tag #shootweek18 on all posts for shoot week! That goes for twitter and ao3 fics as well.